Fantasy playoffs, Florida plays Georgia, and Texas and Texas Tech butt heads – this weekend is shaping up to be a very important one for the college football landscape. Last week had many high scoring games and as a result there was some shuffling around in our weekly defense rankings.
USC remains in the top spot, Florida’s cat-stomping of Kentucky exposed their highly ranked defense, and LSU moved all the way down to 78 after Georgia crushed them in Death Valley. And as usual the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Washington St., and Idaho) appears void of any semblance of resistance to their own end zones.
Unless your fantasy squad can be called Depth Valley, use the BlitzIndex to optimize your starting lineups for what may be your most important game of the year as we head to the playoffs.
Or, have they cleaned out their lockers, looking ahead to 2009?
No matter where your team is at in your league standings…you gotta keep playing. You got playoffs to win…playoffs to qualify for…or spoiling the playoff bid of your opponent.
No time to quit, now…
Week Ten is an interesting one. A number of FBS schools are off this week, but, it will not have too much affect on the top QBs. However, keep an eye on top RBs and WRs who may be off this week…pay special attention to our RB and WR articles this week. Hint, Hint…
Smith and Mullins, along with Mr. Huss, are going to be busy this week.
Nevertheless, we still have a QB article to do. And, if you still can grab a free agent or supplemental pick, check out UAB QB Joseph Webb (pictured, thanks IconSMI) Read the rest of this entry →
The United States Army is a strong and proud branch of the military, and, is second to none. However, that does not mean you ignore excellence from the other military branches.
Such excellence was displayed last week by Navy QB Ricky Dobbs, our Army “Find Your Strength” Player of the Week.
In Navy’s 34-7 win over SMU, Dobbs, filling in for QBs Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada and Jarrod Bryant, ran 42 times for 224 yards, and scored 4 TDs…all produced in a driving rainstorm at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis.
So effective was Dobbs on the ground, the USNA did not attempt a single pass…the first time in over a decade that a Division I-FBS team did not attempt a forward pass during a game.
Ricky Dobbs, this week’s Army “Find Your Strength” Player of the Week.
If this article has a sub-title, it would be “Where Da Hell Have You Been…And Where Da Hell Did Ya Come From”
The first part of the sub-title definitely has Rutgers QB Mike Teel (photo, thanksIconSMI) written all over it. The Scarlet Knights QB (and the entire team, for that matter) have had a mellow 2008 so far. Teel let out all those demons on Pittsburgh, throwing for 361 yards and 6 TDs on only 14 completions, hitting WR Kenny Britt on 3 of those TDs, and WR Tim Brown on 2 more.
Pittsburgh RB LeSean McCoy kept the Panthers in the shootout, rushing for 146 yards and 4 TDs, but it was not enough to upend Rutgers Read the rest of this entry →
In Part Two of our “Notes From The Margin” column for Week Nine, we take a look at the Big Ten, Pac-10, and, of course, SEC football conferences, and find some interesting “cat-and mouse” games playing themselves out as both winning and losing coaching staffs alike attempt to pay homage to the premier of the new James Bond movie, “Quantum of Silence” with unusual player adjustments, potential offensive “secret weapons” being prepared, and the burning of redshirts suddenly abounding in the world of collegiate football . . .
Check out Michigan installing star recruit Justin Feagin at wide receiver, Purdue coach Joe Tiller’s wonderful crack-back on mouthy starting tailback Kory Sheets,a potential waste of a redshirt for Washington’s Cody Burns – and all for three total plays, Sylvester Croom’s “secret weapon” at Mississippi State, and the trivia-filled quarterback crisis confronting head coach Steve Spurrier at South Carolina (i.e., what’s the connection with Spurrier, the University of Florida, and walk-on quarterback Zac Brindise?).Read the rest of this entry →
Fantasy playoffs, Florida plays Georgia, and Texas and Texas Tech butt heads – this weekend is shaping up to be a very important one for the college football landscape. Last week had many high scoring games and as a result there was some shuffling around in our weekly defense rankings.
